It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.

...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

Some men just want to watch the world burn

I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.

Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do."

No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.

No person that has ever felt the benefits of being present can consider himself a victim, or unhappy in any way.

Many strokes though with a little axe hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

Difficult situations require compassion, level-headedness & the empathy to see issues from somebody else's perspective.

True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection.

Patience and perserverance will accomplish more in this world than a brilliant dash. Remember that when something goes wrong.

Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.

Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.

The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way.